Virtue, rules, and justice : Kantian aspirations /
Thomas E. Hill, Jr., interprets, explains and extends Kant's moral theory in a series of essays that highlight its relevance to contemporary ethics. The book is divided into four sections. The first three essays cover basic themes. They introduce the major aspects of Kant's ethics, explain...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
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| Summary: | Thomas E. Hill, Jr., interprets, explains and extends Kant's moral theory in a series of essays that highlight its relevance to contemporary ethics. The book is divided into four sections. The first three essays cover basic themes. They introduce the major aspects of Kant's ethics, explain different interpretations of the categorical imperative and sketch a 'constructivist' reading of Kantian normative ethics distinct from the Kantian constructivisms of Onora O'Neill and John Rawls. The next section is on virtue, and the essays collected here discuss whether it is a virtue to regard the natural environment as intrinsically valuable, address puzzles about moral weakness, contrast ideas of virtue in Kant's ethics and in 'virtue ethics' and comment on duties to oneself, second-order duties and moral motivation in Kant's 'Doctrine of Virtue.' |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 372 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [358]-365) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199692002 0199692009 9780199692019 0199692017 |